Asda
The Leeds-headquartered supermarket group, one of the UK’s largest retailers and among the city’s biggest employers.
Asda runs more than 1,100 stores and outlets from its headquarters at Asda House on Great Wilson Street. The business began in Knottingley in 1949 as Associated Dairies and adopted the Asda name in 1965. Walmart owned it from 1999 until 2021, when it was bought by Mohsin Issa and TDR Capital, and Walmart retains a minority stake.
Key facts
- Leeds office
- Asda House, Great Wilson Street, Leeds LS11 5AD
- Headquarters
- Leeds
- Turnover
- £25.88bn (2025)
- Employees
- 91,379 (2025)
- Companies House
- 12855336 (registered September 2020)
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